Forestdale Mills - North Smithfiled RI
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nomadwillie
N 41° 59.814 W 071° 33.865
19T E 287603 N 4652613
Built in 1860 as a street entrance and office to the mill.
Waymark Code: WMQVX7
Location: Rhode Island, United States
Date Posted: 04/03/2016
Views: 3
The Forestdale Mills (L) make flannel blankets. The factory maintains a baseball field where the village boys play sandlot games. The mill population is largely Portuguese and Polish in character.
Rhode Island, a Guide to the Smallest State, 1937 p377
Today the only remaining building to the mill is the mill office which is at street level and had a catwalk to the mill that entered at its third story. The mill was destroyed by fire in the 1970's and was a EPA superfund site.
Book: Rhode Island
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 377
Year Originally Published: 1937
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